flate: return CVec<u8> rather than copying into a new vector.

This trades an O(n) allocation + memcpy for a O(1) proc allocation (for
the destructor). Most users only need &[u8] anyway (all of the users in
the main repo), and so this offers large gains.

mk/crates.mk

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ DEPS_rustc := syntax native:rustllvm flate arena serialize sync getopts \
               collections time extra
 DEPS_rustdoc := rustc native:sundown serialize sync getopts collections \
                 test time
-DEPS_flate := std native:miniz
+DEPS_flate := std extra native:miniz
 DEPS_arena := std collections
 DEPS_glob := std
 DEPS_serialize := std

src/libextra/c_vec.rs

@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@
  * if necessary.
  */
 
+use std::cast;
 use std::ptr;
+use std::raw;
 
 /**
  * The type representing a foreign chunk of memory
@@ -111,6 +113,20 @@ impl <T> CVec<T> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// View the stored data as a slice.
+    pub fn as_slice<'a>(&'a self) -> &'a [T] {
+        unsafe {
+            cast::transmute(raw::Slice { data: self.base as *T, len: self.len })
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// View the stored data as a mutable slice.
+    pub fn as_mut_slice<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut [T] {
+        unsafe {
+            cast::transmute(raw::Slice { data: self.base as *T, len: self.len })
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Retrieves an element at a given index
      *

src/libflate/lib.rs

@@ -20,9 +20,10 @@ Simple compression
 #[license = "MIT/ASL2"];
 #[allow(missing_doc)];
 
+extern crate extra;
 use std::libc::{c_void, size_t, c_int};
 use std::libc;
-use std::vec;
+use extra::c_vec::CVec;
 
 pub mod rustrt {
     use std::libc::{c_int, c_void, size_t};
@@ -33,13 +34,13 @@ pub mod rustrt {
                                           src_buf_len: size_t,
                                           pout_len: *mut size_t,
                                           flags: c_int)
-                                          -> *c_void;
+                                          -> *mut c_void;
 
         pub fn tinfl_decompress_mem_to_heap(psrc_buf: *c_void,
                                             src_buf_len: size_t,
                                             pout_len: *mut size_t,
                                             flags: c_int)
-                                            -> *c_void;
+                                            -> *mut c_void;
     }
 }
 
@@ -47,49 +48,43 @@ static LZ_NORM : c_int = 0x80;  // LZ with 128 probes, "normal"
 static TINFL_FLAG_PARSE_ZLIB_HEADER : c_int = 0x1; // parse zlib header and adler32 checksum
 static TDEFL_WRITE_ZLIB_HEADER : c_int = 0x01000; // write zlib header and adler32 checksum
 
-fn deflate_bytes_internal(bytes: &[u8], flags: c_int) -> ~[u8] {
+fn deflate_bytes_internal(bytes: &[u8], flags: c_int) -> CVec<u8> {
     unsafe {
         let mut outsz : size_t = 0;
         let res = rustrt::tdefl_compress_mem_to_heap(bytes.as_ptr() as *c_void,
                                                      bytes.len() as size_t,
                                                      &mut outsz,
                                                      flags);
-        assert!(res as int != 0);
-            let out = vec::raw::from_buf_raw(res as *u8,
-                                             outsz as uint);
-        libc::free(res as *mut c_void);
-        out
+        assert!(!res.is_null());
+        CVec::new_with_dtor(res as *mut u8, outsz as uint, proc() libc::free(res))
     }
 }
 
-pub fn deflate_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> ~[u8] {
+pub fn deflate_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> CVec<u8> {
     deflate_bytes_internal(bytes, LZ_NORM)
 }
 
-pub fn deflate_bytes_zlib(bytes: &[u8]) -> ~[u8] {
+pub fn deflate_bytes_zlib(bytes: &[u8]) -> CVec<u8> {
     deflate_bytes_internal(bytes, LZ_NORM | TDEFL_WRITE_ZLIB_HEADER)
 }
 
-fn inflate_bytes_internal(bytes: &[u8], flags: c_int) -> ~[u8] {
+fn inflate_bytes_internal(bytes: &[u8], flags: c_int) -> CVec<u8> {
     unsafe {
         let mut outsz : size_t = 0;
         let res = rustrt::tinfl_decompress_mem_to_heap(bytes.as_ptr() as *c_void,
                                                        bytes.len() as size_t,
                                                        &mut outsz,
                                                        flags);
-        assert!(res as int != 0);
-        let out = vec::raw::from_buf_raw(res as *u8,
-                                         outsz as uint);
-        libc::free(res as *mut c_void);
-        out
+        assert!(!res.is_null());
+        CVec::new_with_dtor(res as *mut u8, outsz as uint, proc() libc::free(res))
     }
 }
 
-pub fn inflate_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> ~[u8] {
+pub fn inflate_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> CVec<u8> {
     inflate_bytes_internal(bytes, 0)
 }
 
-pub fn inflate_bytes_zlib(bytes: &[u8]) -> ~[u8] {
+pub fn inflate_bytes_zlib(bytes: &[u8]) -> CVec<u8> {
     inflate_bytes_internal(bytes, TINFL_FLAG_PARSE_ZLIB_HEADER)
 }
 
@@ -115,11 +110,11 @@ mod tests {
             debug!("de/inflate of {} bytes of random word-sequences",
                    input.len());
             let cmp = deflate_bytes(input);
-            let out = inflate_bytes(cmp);
+            let out = inflate_bytes(cmp.as_slice());
             debug!("{} bytes deflated to {} ({:.1f}% size)",
                    input.len(), cmp.len(),
                    100.0 * ((cmp.len() as f64) / (input.len() as f64)));
-            assert_eq!(input, out);
+            assert_eq!(input.as_slice(), out.as_slice());
         }
     }
 
@@ -127,7 +122,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn test_zlib_flate() {
         let bytes = ~[1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
         let deflated = deflate_bytes(bytes);
-        let inflated = inflate_bytes(deflated);
-        assert_eq!(inflated, bytes);
+        let inflated = inflate_bytes(deflated.as_slice());
+        assert_eq!(inflated.as_slice(), bytes.as_slice());
     }
 }

src/librustc/back/link.rs

@@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ fn link_rlib(sess: Session,
             // into the archive.
             let bc = obj_filename.with_extension("bc");
             match fs::File::open(&bc).read_to_end().and_then(|data| {
-                fs::File::create(&bc).write(flate::deflate_bytes(data))
+                fs::File::create(&bc).write(flate::deflate_bytes(data).as_slice())
             }) {
                 Ok(()) => {}
                 Err(e) => {

src/librustc/back/lto.rs

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ pub fn run(sess: session::Session, llmod: ModuleRef,
         let bc = bc.expect("missing bytecode in archive!");
         let bc = time(sess.time_passes(), format!("inflate {}.bc", name), (), |_|
                       flate::inflate_bytes(bc));
-        let ptr = bc.as_ptr();
+        let ptr = bc.as_slice().as_ptr();
         debug!("linking {}", name);
         time(sess.time_passes(), format!("ll link {}", name), (), |()| unsafe {
             if !llvm::LLVMRustLinkInExternalBitcode(llmod,

src/librustc/metadata/cstore.rs

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ use metadata::loader;
 
 use std::cell::RefCell;
 use collections::HashMap;
+use extra::c_vec::CVec;
 use syntax::ast;
 use syntax::parse::token::IdentInterner;
 
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ use syntax::parse::token::IdentInterner;
 pub type cnum_map = @RefCell<HashMap<ast::CrateNum, ast::CrateNum>>;
 
 pub enum MetadataBlob {
-    MetadataVec(~[u8]),
+    MetadataVec(CVec<u8>),
     MetadataArchive(loader::ArchiveMetadata),
 }
 

src/librustc/middle/trans/base.rs

@@ -2569,7 +2569,7 @@ pub fn write_metadata(cx: &CrateContext, krate: &ast::Crate) -> ~[u8] {
     let encode_parms = crate_ctxt_to_encode_parms(cx, encode_inlined_item);
     let metadata = encoder::encode_metadata(encode_parms, krate);
     let compressed = encoder::metadata_encoding_version +
-                        flate::deflate_bytes(metadata);
+                        flate::deflate_bytes(metadata).as_slice();
     let llmeta = C_bytes(compressed);
     let llconst = C_struct([llmeta], false);
     let name = format!("rust_metadata_{}_{}_{}", cx.link_meta.crateid.name,